Student Scholarship Exhibition 2024

The SOE Scholarship Exhibition is a virtual poster session hosted by the School of Education. 

The purpose of this event is threefold:

1. To highlight student scholarly endeavors within our school and celebrate research that is completed or underway.
2. To create an opportunity for School of Education students at all levels to think about research and how it improves our respective fields.
3. To recognize and appreciate the work of student peers.

This will be a weeklong event beginning on April 15 with the poster presentations on the Monmouth University website. From April 15 until April 17, everyone will be encouraged to view the posters online and vote for the best presentation in each category. Finally, on Tuesday, April 23 at 4:15 p.m., there will be an awards ceremony with a portion of it dedicated to the exemplary poster presentations. Posters will remain online for viewing after the event.

As the definition of scholarship varies widely from discipline to discipline, we have opened up the poster session to include four areas.

1. Proposed Research
   • This includes research that has not entered data collection, however uses the research process for problem identification, research question formation, and a plan for conducting research.  This area would fit well for introductory research methods classes or students in the planning phase of honors theses.  Posters would walk through this planning phase of research and likely include background, purpose and methods sections, though no specific format is required.
2. Completed Research or Research in Progress
   • This includes scholarly research that is either in the data collection process without final results or research that has been completed. This can include scholarship conducted for honors theses, class projects that utilize the research process, faculty/student research collaborations, and independent research.
3. Experiential Education and Clinical Practice Reflections
   • This includes critical reflection of fieldwork experiences through internship opportunities and clinical practice placements.  Posters will include reflection on the site, clients/students, assignments/role, as well as what the presenter learned through the experience and a reflection on how they impacted their site.  This could work well for social work placements, clinical experiences in education, counseling, and speech language pathology, health studies professional seminar internships, and nursing clinical placements.
4. Creative Practice
   • This category is designed to highlight other scholarship that is taking place in the classroom that involves thoughtful inquiry or analysis according to the standards of your field. This category may include development of a lesson plan based on current pedagogy, an in-depth analysis of a policy or problem in the field, or a service learning experience that transformed understanding of the field. This category might also include timely and creative practices that were developed in the face of a virtual/hybrid Covid-19 educational environment. These are just examples, and this category is designed to demonstrate that scholarship in each field is often more broad than a traditional social science research paradigm.

A social justice designation is scholarship that promotes one of the following areas:

• Awareness Includes general concepts of social justice and multiculturalism. Overall, the project focuses on both recognition and reflections related to social justice and practices which impact the highlighted topic.
• Advocacy Incorporates an informed inclusion of social justice and multiculturalism within the project. Additionally, the project includes action which generates small change.
• Activism Includes an intentional, proactive engagement in social justice with the goal of creating change to systems or policies that impact the highlighted topic.

The “must haves” on your poster depend on the type of presentation you are giving. Below are the recommended elements for each type of poster.

1. Proposed Research
   1. Background
   2. Purpose
   3. Methods
2. Completed Research or Research In Progress
   1. Background
   2. Purpose
   3. Methods
   4. Results or Preliminary Findings
   5. Discussion and/or Conclusions
3. Experiential Education and Clinical Practice Reflections
   1. Site
   2. Job title
   3. Assignment or role
   4. Clients/students
   5. “What did you learn?”
   6. “How did you impact the site?”

Note: Inclusion of pictures of the site, your work products, etc., are encouraged

4. Other Scholarly Work
   1. Requirements as defined by the project

Each poster presentation needs to include:

• One PowerPoint slide with a brief voiceover. The voiceover needs to be embedded in the slide (see below topic of “resources” for a free e-resource to help accomplish this).
• Voiceover can be no longer than 3 minutes (or you will not be able to be included in the event).
• Save your poster presentation with voiceover as a YouTube link with the following information: Poster-Category-LastName (for example, ProposedHaspel, etc.)
  • Poster category (abbreviations are as follow):
    • Proposed Research: “Proposed”
    • Completed Research or Research In Progress: “CompletedIP”
    • Experiential Education and Clinical Practice Reflections: “Experiential”
    • Other Scholarly Work: “Other”

Students are limited to two posters at the event.

Yes, you can use the Monmouth University School of Education (SOE) logo. Use this link to Monmouth University’s Visual Identity Guidelines for information and usage.

Download the School of Education logo from the Brand Resources site.

Please Note: Students and academic units are not to use the Presidential Seal, as it is for official documents coming from the President’s Office/Board of Trustees so please be mindful of this and choose one of the logos from the School of Education.

Student photos can only be used if permission has been explicitly granted by the parent for the purposes of your presentation. The consent form must be attached for reference when submitting your poster.

• How to Upload a PowerPoint to YouTube
• How to Record Voiceover on a PowerPoint
• Free Electronic Support to Embed a Voiceover into a PowerPoint Slide
• Design of Scientific Posters
• Free Poster Presentation Templates

Yes! Feel free to browse the archive of poster presentations with voiceovers from our Spring 2023 Student Scholarship Exhibition.

Yes, students can work in a group. The first researcher will submit one single presentation with all researchers’ names.

Online voting will be open to the public the week of the event. Each individual could only vote once and should have fairly viewed multiple presentations.

• For questions about the event, please contact Mary Haspel at mhaspel@monmouth.edu.
• For technology related questions, please contact the MU HELP Desk at helpdesk@monmouth.edu or 732-923-4357.

Posters must be submitted Monday, April 8.

Online viewing and voting on posters in all categories from Monday, April 15, through Wednesday, April 17, at midnight.

SOE Awards Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, April 23, starting at 4 p.m. 

Mary B. Haspel, Ed.D., BCBA-D
Assistant Professor
Department of Special Education

KC Lubniewski, Ed.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Special Education